distributed performance test

Serge Aleynikov writes:
> I'd like to ask for your advice on how to troubleshoot a problem
Nobody's replied, so it doesn't seem to be a problem anyone's
encountered before.
If you post some cut-down-but-still-compilable code then maybe some
others on the list will at least be able to reproduce your results so
that you know that it's not just your machine/network/OS that sucks.
Matthias